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[Letterhead] LAW OFFICES DARROW MASTERS AND BAILY 1202 ASHLAND BLOCK CHICAGO

Sept 27 [1910]

Dear Mary

I have been thinking of your going to Albany on the Social diseases law. I believe in a fair show for women as they never have had a fair show, and I dont know just what this law is. Still there are some things to remember. Of course prostitution is all wrong & of course it is caused by poverty & can not be cured except by curing poverty. Still it is here & will stay in substantially its present condition until people get down to fundamentals which will be a D-n long while yet. This being so what safeguards are best to throw around the business It is a menace to men & women both where any one in this occupation spreading disease - for instance a man gets an occupational disease- his wife gets it - the preacher gets it most any one gets it. Society ought to provide against it. Those who have it ought to be withdrawn from business in some way or by some process - either [?] or [?] or [?] [?] or something You might say why not the men. Of course why not is